it wasn't a code it wasn't a problem when you were it was for you to any. syrian president bashar asad speaks exclusively to our team about his and his country's future saying he's not a western pa and warned that foreign intervention whatever global repercussions. barack obama slaps new sanctions on iran one of his first foreign policy decisions since reelection while lawmakers plan even more severe restrictions. leaving a towel to itself as a tourist destination just weeks after a deadly siege and clashes in the town of bani walid.

in the russian capital you're watching our marina joshie the syrian president says western states are used to greeting anime's and are motivated by their own interest in the exclusive interview with r.t. bashar asad predicts a global catastrophe should foreign powers intervene in his country our correspondent in the region policy or has the details. in this exclusive interview with r t the syrian president bashar assad stressed the point that he will remain in syria he said it was only for the syrian people to decide his fate he said that he was not a puppet of the west and you have the situation where the waste creates enemies that essentially avail motivated by the self interest wasn't it olcott there wasn't a problem you know with all it's created anyway it was communism but it became. became for promising for different reasons and now they want to create a new enemy because of the problem with the president so he has to do both of you

have to focus on the real problem with listening to what they say but he did warn that these self interests of the waste lead to foreign intervention which ultimately has a domino effect he also made the point that at the moment there is no civil war in syria he said the situation was such that you had these factions fighting they were being funded by the west he called them terrorist and he said that these terrorists coming from abroad are the biggest problem facing syria today on the topic of turkey he did say that there was no war no conflict between the syrian people and the turkish people that the disagreements were on a government level. i think he believes that if. take over in the region especially in syria you can go to his political future this is one reason the other reason. personally think that he had been useful part of the autumn and he controlled the region as it was during those many. different routes.

which is. islamic but not god money in buying not to be holy for but in his how do you think that is how you feel he said that he didn't have any regrets although he did make the point that the conflict is still ongoing on the ground and as such it's a little bit too soon to really step back and properly address said if today was fifteen so of march two thousand and eleven that's when the protest started to escalate and grow what would you do differently what i would do or do what i did exactly zero for exactly the thing just to ask different parties to for to have dialogue and to stand against the terrorist group but i always thought i didn't thought it would cover world most with but within those markets you had militants who thought that hooting at the civilians and at the same time maybe on the thirty collateral you could have done something different but as president you're not that you could go to think the decision on strategic level which is different in essence

the point being made by the syrian president bashar assad is that his government was fighting a legitimate cause that what is happening in syria today is foreign intervention that is attempting to destabilize the situation and that he is taking his cue from the syrian people. are just so visual and audio spoke to the embattled president asif and the mask is shared her views on the situation in syria and what people there think about their leader. and the thing that really marked me the most is how really how much more complicated situation inside series that from what we see in the media because i talk to people yes the country is divided and even the people who didn't like us before this conflict started are now so scared that fundamentalists will come to power fundamentalists who are fighting on the side of the free syrian army and syrian people are not about that and this is like the only secular that had a lot of different religious groups always living in peace with each other whether

it's sunni or shia or always or christians so they're really scared that if our side goes the army will fall apart and then you know you have this extremist muslims coming to them and asking them to basically be just like them so it's not just about assad i think people feel like whether he goes or stays. it's only can get worse if it goes because it will get i mean that the terror attacks will continue and the fundamentalists will come to power so they're very scared of that and you can see the full exclusive interview with syria's president bashar asad in the next hour here in r.t. that's also available on our website dot com. i'm serious. i mean do you feel you have to be considered a good student but. there are two exclusive sunday on our to dot com now u.s. lawmakers are reportedly working on new financial and trade sanctions against iran

which would prevent the country from doing business with much of the world now this will be on top of the latest round of restrictions just imposed by washington and this comes after the pentagon revealed that a radio war plane strider should down a u.s. drone near iran's border last week are just going to count as more. president obama's first moves after he won reelection have pretty much indicated that in the next four years he will aggressively pursue the idea of the us being the world police ministration is impose financial sanctions against the iranian officials will be u.s. blames for jamming satellite broadcast and blocking internet access any rain that comes on top of a whole bunch of other sanctions that had been put in place by the u.s. which are proved to be crippling for the ukrainian economy and the population there is suffering a great deal because of that while campaigning president obama indicated that he didn't want to go to war with iran but that he would continue the sanctions policy and that's what he's doing we've heard reports that the obama administration might engage in direct talks with iran at some point but there has been no confirmation

that. threatens to attack iran and the u.s. appears to be stopping them some argue that the u.s. might be playing a good cop bad cop diplomatic game there anyway the administration's strategy appears to be to make iran so desperate that they would agree to anything but sanctioning iran was probably not president obama's very first move after winning this election government officials here say said on wednesday a u.s. drone strike targeted a group of al qaida militants in yemen and the president had to authorize that and possibly he did that within hours after his reelection the use of drones has been highly controversial it's quite clear not everybody by those drones are terrorists and the administration so far has been far from transparent on how they pick the targets and basically authorize executions overseas the u.n. has raised concerns about the legality of such executions has been a lot of purchases and especially after numerous reports of civilian deaths in the

meantime this administration is said to rely on drones more and more and other drone related story this week the pentagon said the rainy and military had fired upon but they did not hit a you was grown flying close to the pentagon claimed the drone was there on their surveillance mission so looking at some of president obama's first moves after reelection one could say he takes the idea of america being the world police very seriously but the question is who's going to hold that world police itself accountable. now the u.s. has so far failed to use the bargaining opportunity the sanctions potentially have says reza marashi research director of the national rail and american council you can continue to ramp up the sanctions on iran but sanctions ostensibly are supposed to provide leverage at the negotiating table if you're not using them as a negotiating chip when you're at the negotiating table then all they are is a blunt instrument the ends up adversely affecting the lives of innocent iranian

people this is the first instance in which we've seen obama move forward on sanctions and it remains to be seen whether or not he doubles down on the diplomatic track of his policy to try to find a peaceful solution to the crisis but we haven't seen to date tangible evidence of these sanctions causing the iranian government to change strategic catholics on its regional policies or on more specifically its nuclear policy and that's supposed to be the goal that's the metric of success that both the bush administration and the obama administration have defined seen the obama administration really ramp up the amount of drone usage you know whether it is yemen or pakistan or even today we saw a report of the iranian government shooting at an american drone that was off of its coast so we're in uncharted waters when it comes to policy american policy related to drones and until we have some rules to this game that the international community can abide by you know playing off the same script that increases the likelihood of

a conflict that the united states and the international community i think would independently seek to avoid. and coming up here in our team it's all in the name for one u.s. citizens done in qatar we find out now what are called could link you to a criminal activity and bar you from entering your own country all the details after a short break here. in. the riding that takes your breath away to eating across the sky as it was a mohnish could you know the biggest salt lake in europe or more than two hundred species of birds but also it is him on the verge of extinction on these islands in the south of russia they find shelter before migrating to other parts of the world paladins as well as other species of the monish who do low feed on stage these

words are waiting for their parents to bring them food to the best cash for them is in a small area of the lake where the water is relatively fresh his fish cannot survive in the salty appalls of the money and the lakes getting sold every year the monish the dealers in all two fish oil reservoir which was filled in the nineteen fifties in the areas hot climate the want to evaporates quickly and the local stores natural sultanate steaks over a call from birds the drying out of the lake cool so threatening one of the world's biggest populations of mustangs. their mills and four hundred is the animals here theories are protected wildlife reserve it's a place of peace and calm in recent decades dozens of canals have been dug around here to cultivate the locals taps broad grassy plains this may be useful for humans but it does badly hit many species as the animals here for instance some idea

antelopes just some forty years ago there were. then to me and so i get antelopes living in asia and they no where else in the world but now people brought the species to the brink of extinction this region has been reaching life with thousands of years but now i know relatively short space of time makes my brain diversity of creatures is second of all fronts by man and nature itself. leads technology innovation all the latest developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. welcome back you're watching r t was marina joshie while the libyan town of bani walid is still struggling to heal the scars of the siege which took place less than a month ago levy is being promoted as a new travel hotspot r.t. sara firth of visited the world travel market in london to find out why tour

operators remain silent on the tragedy. we're here at the world travel market a trade show a taking place in london where people can consulates their holiday inspiration or that scout exotic spot for a honey one country you probably wouldn't expect to see being touted as a tourist. and that's libya the places where the tourist interesting the site is a political sideshow it's completely safe granted it's got to be served more than even towns to big towns like london or my new york but there's somewhere that's not mentioned in the guide berke bani walid a desert town that's remaining loyal to formally to colonel gadhafi it's just a few hours dry southeast of the traditional tourist destination tripoli but it's a world away from the safe environment the two guides the pitching. the town's become the scene of some of the fiercest fighting since the libyan uprising last year but despite reports of indiscriminate shelling and gas attacks on the local

population at the hands of the libyan army there's been an almost total media blackout in the. r.t. ran the story for more than a fortnight before anyone else picked it up back in london and despite libya being showcased it seems that bani walid has once again been conveniently left out of the conversation when i saw this. it was a ghost surprise and i came to to others of feedback of the situation at the moment in libya and if we have so many people it means our situation is that it becoming more stable and we can think for next season to do something with libya and it's a wonderful country so we would about what's happening at the moment i knew were legal but do you mean was had was being happening there there's been fighting do you know about that no we went to confront the tour operator i saw you speaking some people you telling them about what's been happening in benny waleed at the

moment. this is a blog. it's coming for the future. there's a reason we don't speak about what was deeply disturbing is that despite a growing body of evidence about crimes against civilians and increasingly vocal concerns from human rights organizations the same media and government remain resolutely silent they've got to sort of package this as a success it's very important for nato so we have the speed of these countries to be liberated in inverted commas as great places to go great places to invest and the reality for the everyday person in these countries is a living hell really pick up one of the travel information then you'll be given reasons to visit libya and undoubtedly there are many there's a concerning silence in a case by the u.k. media a seeming refusal to talk about what's been happening in places like bani walid the reality is that the new government is struggling to control its militias and bridge

the deep divides that remain in the country but none of that you're going to read about in the. surf artsy london while the libyan government says bani walid will soon recover a local's believe they are current status far from normal r.t. spoke to a man named ferrars who is in contact with his relatives in the stricken town and says the fighting is still not over for raj not his real name is currently in egypt and has asked not to be identified over fears for his safety. government of t.v.'s subverting the oath merely shows that. but they're killing innocent citizens in the city leave you. out of. this included minutes in food would undo the life in the sixty's they had this. with guns and bullets.

over what he would eat this is a given store their definition of close. friends and know the photo and go be a one night and this young fellow who tool to another who to. be able to call you a hero and do good he didn't do it isn't his only give the united states is was flooded. with guns into pretty darn good if it will be no no and i mean the government do this. then. and leading bahraini human rights activists continues to wait his fate the trial of the baylor job who's been under arrest since july will resume in a month's time after these hearings find out more by logging on to arkie dot com.

and a new frontier astronomers discover a planet seven times the size of earth which could support human life more and that online. an american now living and working in qatar has been barred from traveling home to visit his sick mother sadik along who is an air force veteran has been placed on a federal no fly list without explanation adam still counting from the council of american islamic relations believes his muslim name makes him and undesirable person in the united states. there is no indication of any reason for him to be on this no fly list he has never been convicted of any criminal activity he has served his country for ten years in the u.s. air force and he has indicated that there is nothing he can think of that would link him to anything criminal in nature you know there are cases care has dealt with in the past of individuals who were placed on the no fly list sometimes it just has to do with the name their name may sound like someone who was affiliated

with criminal activities or or something of the sort we've never really been given answers by the f.b.i. and the department of homeland security so we're not one hundred percent sure it's kind of speculation at this point but nevertheless you know he's indicated that he has a law abiding u.s. citizen and really cannot think of anything that would prevent him from travel. russia's joint chief of staff has become the latest high ranking official to fall in the wake of a corruption scandal shaking the country's military this comes after the second of the defense minister and the new man in the job has already started a major reshuffle of the ministry well we're going now gets the very latest on this from andrew farmer lander it seems like the new minister is wasting no time tell us more. like well these are part of what a plan is by grizzlies in sci fi correction and in this instance they do it stan writes in the russian military earlier today michael valenti got them all physically to the armed forces general stanley chief and it will be his the

sponsibility not only till you see reforms in the army but also to help weed out corruption he was appointed by the defense minister. said that's a good he said wolf was a military man from head to command he was in the armed forces and for a man he respected in the military no i think the appointment and the timing of it is significant because police all will have to tell you the man who was responsible for a company that i was still the cycle of minutes we. says the allegations are that these asses were sold well below market prices the federal security service is also revealed today that it will be carrying out the ranking check check story on high rise the officials within the limits rate and possible life details to surely gauge said mr johns he's pretty clear that corruption will not be tolerated and tough measures are being taken this line we is that we also understand in the last few minutes that this is the things that are really still has been appointed by

president faces in this part of the of an overall shakeup in the russian military. right andy thanks very much for bringing us the very latest on this artie's enter farmer there. and we explore next the secrets behind the world's most widely used and reliable assault rifle the kalashnikov. i'm fifty and i made. a mint in syria and after even incident but shar al assad did an r.t.a. exclusive friday through sunday on r.t. and r.t. dot com wealthy british style. is not on the.

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no failure i take pride in my work but for one thing. the one who kills that distinction belongs to the man who pulls my trachea. i am an assault rifle my name is. somewhere a group of elite soldiers from russia's interior ministry or amounts to start an exercise in the morning they line up information according to tradition they pay homage to past comrades who have died in the line of duty. that has taken part in many counterterrorist operations across russia. they have a variety of firearms at their disposal but their weapon of choice is still the. rifle. it's known simply as. there are here. that these soldiers will enjoy

a course of special training lasting almost until. its regular procedure but modifications to the kalashnikov assault rifle to be tested in such units it will be hard to imagine or tough a testing ground but in your gun. one rifle for every bench is thoroughly scrutinized before being sent to units in a field. it's more like torture than a scientific trial. the rifles design a new golf one that when he realized his first model was to be subjected to a severe test he looked away he couldn't bear to see it with his own eyes. testing a new variant of the kalashnikov goes through seven stages first the gun is placed into what's known as the dust chamber where the room is filled with sand.

it sure does chambers filled with fine particles of silica sand the next stage will lead us to the sprinkler room it imitates a subtropical climate when u.s. commandos fortin the hot and humid conditions often prompted them to improvise with captured kalashnikovs. issue sixteen rifle kalashnikovs well in such a climate. self-taught gunsmith mikhail kalashnikov came up with a prototype for his celebrated rifle at least age of twenty two he says about designing it off to he was wounded in action during the second world war recognition of his achievement came five and a half years later in one nine hundred forty seven when his model came first in a defense ministry firearm design contest the new weapon was designated a forty seven. i took care to think over every single part to make them more.